Budget cuts are forcing international science alliance CERN to postpone upgrades to the most potent particle-punisher currently operated by the human race - the subterranean Large Hadron Collider (LHC) outside Geneva. CERN has also been compelled to temporarily shut down other accelerators, and has seen "protests" from boffins …

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re 'God particle' - a slight terminological inexactitude?

Shurely 'Flying Spaghetti Monster particle', because (1) it flies about (apparently), (2) it's (probably) quantum entangled somewhere just now, and (3) it's such a whopper you have to look thru the wrong end of a telescope to see it.

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"In that case the consequences were no more serious than global devastation of the porn and news industries. But things could be a great deal worse this time"

If you know your history of BOFH, you will know there is nothing more dangerous than a bored techie, but with the possibility of heralding in a whole new era of smut surfing I am willing to take the risk

No risk. Sure apples and almonds and cassava fruit carry small doses of cyanide and pose little risk. Industrial chemical prussian blue (dark blue) is a cyanide. Stock up on the sweets, floaties and don't drink the blue liquid.